Thanks, this works nicely for the Keyboard Viewer and the Character Palette.

I suspect it'll also work with some of the similar things that are buried in the system (like the font selector pane or palette or "component" or whatever it is that can be accessed from TextEdit and a few other places). The hard part seems to be finding them in the system library.

This method of making the Character (and Keyboard) Viewer Panes accessible with Launchbar was working fine, but was broken when I installed Snow Leopard. Apple reworked these components, and apparently moved them elsewhere in the System. I haven't been able to find them. Does anyone know where they (especially the Character Viewer) are now?

I am searching for a way of launching the keyboard viewer. ⌥⌘T works fine for the Character palette, but I can't find the equivalent for the Keyboard viewer.I've indexed the KeyboardViewer application and Launchbar now finds the app, but hitting return doesn't show the Keyboard. So there must be one more step before launching the Keyboard viewer app actually works in practice. Any ideas?